For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
AristotleThe good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them.
AristotleIf thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible.
Aristotle